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(MedPage Today) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) pushed back on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims that the CDC's vaccine panel is unable to meet due to a recent ruling in a lawsuit challenging changes to the U.S. childhood...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- A multidisciplinary group of menopause experts developed new comorbidity-specific guidance on non-hormone therapy for moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms. For patients whose primary menopausal symptoms are hot...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An older Japanese American woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease experienced transient improvements in multiple domains after taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms, according to a case report. (Frontiers in Neuroscience)...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- I vividly remember my first day in outpatient clinic as an intern more than 30 years ago, when my patient told me they needed refills for all their medications. In his incredibly thick paper chart was a list of medications, handwritten...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- In the U.K., resident doctors in cardiology claimed it was not uncommon to observe physician assistants (PAs) performing actions outside of their scope of practice, a survey found. (Heart) Multiple sclerosis did not predispose...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved another opioid overdose reversal product for over-the-counter (OTC) use, the agency announced on Tuesday. The 4-mg intranasal naloxone hydrochloride (Rextovy) nasal spray joins other similar nonprescription...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A massive wave of new prescriptions for GLP-1 receptor agonists is expected following the July launch of a Medicare pilot program that offers the drugs for weight loss for a flat $50 monthly copay. (Axios) Meanwhile, nearly...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Ten-year results were disappointing for older-generation Sapien transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), with a newer iteration providing some reassurance on deaths and aortic valve reinterventions. In the PARTNER 2A randomized...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, updated HER2CLIMB-05 findings on the addition of tucatinib (Tukysa) to first-line maintenance therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and pertuzumab (Perjeta) added to...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Two family medicine residency programs in the Seattle-Tacoma area are folding or downsizing, raising concerns about physician shortages in already underserved areas. Tacoma's Community Health Care is shuttering its family medicine...
Read full article →The top five diagnostic categories were mental health, acute respiratory diseases and infections, overweight and obesity, endocrine and metabolic disorders and joint and soft tissue diseases.
Read full article →The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday announced the launch of a new office aimed at reducing the use of animal-based research testing and boosting the use of testing methods that "better reflect human biology." NIH's new office will be named the Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application (ORIVA). Reducing animal testing has...
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